I don’t make the quotes. I just report them.
Lifetime Lows
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
It’s All About Momo
Just as some people are famous for being famous, sometimes stocks go up just because they go up. That is absolutely the theme lately, as utterly questionable sectors like quantum computing vault to lifetime highs day after day just because, well, that’s in style!
Three Out of Four!
I never would have guessed that almost 200 million Americans are paying subscribers to Amazon Prime.
Just the Tip……..
With the new IRS rules about tips being tax-free (with certain limits), one can only imagine the gamesmanship that’s about to take place with people claiming certain types of income as just tips. Here’s an interesting breakdown on who gets tips. Bartenders, yeah, makes total sense. But…….locksmiths?!?!
Is This the Real Life?
For my entire adult life, I’ve heard about how overpriced Bay Area real estate is, and how one could get a place that was SO much bigger with SO much more land for the same price in Bumblefuck, Oklahoma instead of Palo Alto. That’s always been true, but the fact is that I’ve done better with real estate (by a country mile, even by Bumblefuck metrics) than anything else, and real estate around here seems to do nothing but go up.
Having said that, I must draw your attention to an ad in our local paper I just saw:
